There has been much discussion recently about the decision of two retailers in the US to drop NFC payments in order to stop Apple Pay being used in their stores. These stores are part of […]
A few weeks back I spotted the bPay band from Barclaycard which supports contactless NFC payments via a wristband. Using the bPay website you load money from a debit or credit card and then make […]
Recently The Economist published an article on Metro Bank and its strategic focus on bank branches. We hear much about the death of the branch but here is a bank building its entire strategy around the […]
To the untrained eye, the impact that Apple’s late, possibly great, move into payments is having is astonishing. Just last week, PayPal and eBay announced that they would become two companies from next year, following […]
It is early evening in the sitting room above the BillingViews shop. Autumn is turning the daylight off ever earlier. Drinks have been poured, satisfied, end of the day, sighs have been sighed and the […]
Kill switches for lost or stolen phones make a lot of sense, and they are now the law in California where starting next July any smartphone sold in the state must come with the ability […]
The short list for prizes for the most under-stated headline now includes this gem for our friends at Mobile Payments Today. It reads ‘MNOs face some uncertainty with mobile wallets.’ It should have included a cartoon […]
Very few press releases get read twice here on BillingViews Boulevard. In fact, it would be true to say that most are scanned with a finger hovering, dagger like, over the ‘delete’ key. Imagine the […]
What an anti-climax! Most of the predictions about the big Apple announcement were remarkably accurate. Bigger iPhones and the Apple Watch that looks remarkably like, well, a watch. Ho hum. But wait, there was some […]
Innovation in payments tends to be evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. The success stories in payments tend to be based on taking what’s already there and making it work better. This approach also happens to be […]
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